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Human-Computer Interaction, Interaction Design, Personas, User-Created Personas, Participatory Design, Intercultural Communication, User Experience, Filmmaking
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Biography

Daniel G. Cabrero is a multidisciplinary social and computer scientist with accomplished careers as a carpenter, filmmaker and technology designer. His fields of interest are the Humanities applied to the representation of laypeople in technology design, aka User-Created Persona artefacts through a Human-Centred Design philosophical approach; stakeholder empowerment via Participatory Design methods; User Experience; Business Agility and transformation in organisations, and the intersection in between all the above.

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Employment (5)

The Open University: Milton Keynes, GB

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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

HM Land Registry: London, Greater London, GB

2019-02-11 to present | User Research consultant (Digital and Data )
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United Kingdom Department for Education: Coventry, West Midlands, GB

2018-06-20 to 2019-02-08 | User Research consultant (Digital Apprenticeship Service)
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Human Factors International (India): Mumbai, Maharashtra, IN

2017-03-01 to 2017-11-17 | VP Advanced UX (Advanced UX)
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Namibia University of Science and Technology: Windhoek, Khomas, NA

2015-06-09 to 2015-12-09 | Lecturer Informatics (PT) (Faculty of Computing and Informatics)
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Education and qualifications (3)

University of West London: London, Greater London, GB

2013-09-17 to 2018-03-26 | PhD Computer Sciences (School of Computing and Engineering)
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Goldsmiths University of London: London, London, GB

2008-09-01 to 2009-09-01 | MA in Scriptwriting
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University of West London: London, Greater London, GB

2003-09-20 to 2006-06-01 | BA(Hons) Media Arts and Video Production (London School of Film, Media and Design)
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Professional activities (2)

Association for Computing Machinery: New York, NY, US

2015-07-01 to present | Active member
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Namibia University of Science and Technology: Windhoek, Khomas, NA

2014-09-29 to 2016-10-31 | Fellow visiting researcher (Faculty of Computing and Informatics)
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Funding (3)

Attendance to 1st AfriCHI International Conference 2016

2016-11 to 2016-11 | Grant
Association for Computing Machinery (New York, NY, US)
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Directing, producing, premiering “Follow my Shadow, See me to Suffer

2016-08 to 2016-10 | Grant
Namibia University of Science & Technology (NUST) (Windhoek, Namibia, Khomas, NA)
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Attendance and participation at the ‘CHI 2016 HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop’ as part of CHI ’16

2016-04 to 2016-05 | Grant
Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) (New York, New York, US)
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Works (35)

Co-Designing Personas for User Experience and Engagement in Automation

Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society
2020-10 | Other
Contributors: Jose Abdelnour Nocera; Daniel Cabrero; Pedro Campos; Frederica Gonçalves; Torkil Clemmensen; Robin Gissing; Lene Nielsen; Parisa Saadati
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Summer of Code: Assisting Distance-Learning Students with Open-Ended Programming Tasks

2018-07-02 | Conference paper | Author
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Contributors: Neil Smith; Richards, Mike; Daniel G. Cabrero
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The Open University (ORO - Open Research Online)

Challenges in Designing Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Tools for Indigenous Communities

Cultural Heritage Communities: Technologies and Challenges
2018-01-01 | Book chapter
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Promoting Entrepreneurship amid Youth in Windhoek’s Informal Settlements: A Namibian Case

Science, Technology and Society
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85021710976

Contributors: Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Cabrero, D.G.; Chivuno-Kuria, S.; Mendonca, H.; Angula, S.S.; Onwordi, L.
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Technologies to promote the inclusion of Indigenous knowledge holders in digital cultural heritage preservation

2017 | Other
Contributors: Koch Kapuire, Gereon; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Stanley, Colin; Maasz, Donovan; Chamunorwa, Michael; Heide Møller, Rune; Rodil, Kasper; Gonzalez-Cabrero, Daniel
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A Contemporary Cultural Expression of Marginalised Namibian Youth through Re-Appropriated Technologies

2017-05-18 | Conference paper
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A critique of personas as representations of "the other" in cross-cultural technology design

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85006042926

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Abdelnour-Nocera, J.
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A hermeneutic inquiry into user-created personas in different Namibian locales

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85014586032

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Abdelnour-Nocera, J.; Kapuire, G.K.
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An UX and usability expression of pastoral ovahimba: Personas in the making and doing

Proceedings of CHIuXiD 2016, the 2nd International Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Conference in Indonesia: Bridging the Gaps in the HCI and UX World
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84966546739

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Kapuire, G.K.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Stanley, C.; Abdelnour-Nocera, J.
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Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction - AfriCHI'16
2016 | Conference paper
Part of ISBN: 9781450348300
Contributors: Marion Walton; Anja Venter; Thomas Reitmeyer; Maletšabisa Molapo; Daniel Gonzalez-Cabrero
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HCI within cross-cultural discourses of globally situated rhetorical and etymological interactions

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-84978916692

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Lopes, A.G.; Barricelli, B.R.
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Indigenous knowledge for wikipedia. A case study with an OvaHerero community in eastern Namibia

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2016 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85006073677

Contributors: Gallert, P.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Kapuire, G.K.; Stanley, C.; Cabrero, D.G.; Shabangu, B.
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Reconceptualising personas across cultures: Archetypes, stereotypes & collective personas in pastoral Namibia

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
2016 | Book
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2-s2.0-85007365316

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Abdelnour-Nocera, J.
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User-Created Persona: Personas beyond the Global North

34th ACM SIGCHI International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’16) - Development Consortium: HCI4D Across Borders
2016 | Conference paper
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Follow my Shadow, See me to Suffer; Track my Spirit, Empathise with Me: Uncovering Khoisan Marginalisation via a Live Healing Performance

2016-10-26 | Conference paper
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User-Created Personas in rural Mexico and in rural Spain

Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora
2016-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2594-2352
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Re-Conceptualising Personas across Cultures: Archetypes, Stereotypes and Collective Personas in Two Locales in Pastoral Namibia

2016-06-15 | Conference paper
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User-Created Persona: In search for another persona in pastoral Namibia

IFIP TC13 Open Symposium on HCI 2016
2016-03 | Lecture
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User-Created Persona: A Four Case-Study with ovaHerero, Ovambo, ovaHimba and Koi San in pastoral and urban Namibia

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2016-03-08 | Lecture
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A Challenge-based Approach to promote Entrepreneurship among Youth in an Informal Settlement in Windhoek

Namibia University of Science and Technology
2015 | Lecture
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Framing technology design in Ubuntu: Two locales in pastoral Namibia

OzCHI 2015: Being Human - Conference Proceedings
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84963532885

Contributors: Kapuire, G.K.; Cabrero, D.G.; Stanley, C.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.
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Indigenous Namibia

CMF / Infinitive Deviation / Google
2015 | Other
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Interaction. 43

2015 | Other
Contributors: Volkmar Pipek; Markus Rohde; Gabriela Avram; Fiorella De Cindio; Gordon A. Gow; Nuwan Waidayanatha; Chandana Jayathilake; Helen Hambly; Timothy Barlott; Mahmuda Anwar et al.
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Reflecting user-created persona in indigenous Namibia - what NOT to do when working in foreign land

2015 | Journal article
Contributors: Cabrero, Daniel G.; Kapuire, Gereon Koch; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike; Stanley, Colin; Rodlil, Kasper; Abdelnour-Nocera, Jose
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User-created persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers

SIGDOC 2015 - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication
2015 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-84961712572

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.
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User-created personas – A micro-cultural lens into informal settlement’s youth life

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
2015 | Book
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2-s2.0-84951982436

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.; Winschiers-Theophilus, H.; Mendonca, H.
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User-Created Personas

School Research Day, Namibia University of Science and Technology, Windhoek, Namibia
2015-11 | Conference poster
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ICTD within the Discourse of a Locally Situated Interaction: The Potential of Youth Engagement

2015-11-08 | Conference paper
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A Challenge-based Approach to promote Entrepreneurship among Youth in an Informal Settlement of Windhoek

2015-10-20 | Conference paper
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Ovahimba Knowledge through Storytelling and Personas

7th International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T’15)
2015-07 | Conference paper
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User-created persona: Namibian rural Otjiherero speakers

33rd Annual International Conference on the Design of Communication (SIGDOC’15)
2015-07-15 | Conference poster
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User-Created Personas: A Micro-Cultural Magnifier revealing Smart Workplaces in thriving Katutura

2015-06-25 | Conference paper
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Participatory design of persona artefacts for user eXperience in non-WEIRD cultures

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
2014 | Conference paper
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2-s2.0-85011920494

Contributors: Cabrero, D.G.
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User-Centred Design for User Experience (UX)

Hult Business School, London, United Kingdom
2014 | Lecture
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Participatory Design of Persona Artefacts for User eXperience in Non-Western Cultures

University of West London Annual PhD Conference
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